Inside Money Today

Latino Success on Wall Street

Juan Monegro started working as a Verizon customer service rep when he was just 19 years old. For someone who would years later become one of the most prolific salesmen in a niche market of financial services, his beginnings are certainly humble, if not strangely improbable. But the way he tells it, the transition wasn’t that outlandish. After all, what better place to become a master of working over the phone than by working for an actual phone company?